Dioscorea floridana

Florida yam
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Dioscoreaceae
Genus: Dioscorea
Species: D. floridana
Binomial name
Dioscorea floridana
Bartlett
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Dioscorea villosa subsp. floridana (Bartlett) R. Knuth
  • Dioscorea villosa var. floridana (Bartlett) H.E. Ahles

Dioscorea floridana the Florida yam, is a plant species native to Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. It grows in wet and sandy places at low elevations.[3][4]

Dioscorea floridana is a perennial vine twining over other vegetation and spreading by means of yellow underground rhizomes. Stems can reach a height of over 4 m off the ground. Leaves are egg-shaped to triangular, up to 12 cm long, not clasping the stem. Flowers are yellow-orange.[3][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos
  2. ↑ The Plant List
  3. 1 2 Flora of North America v 26 p 483, Dioscorea floridana
  4. ↑ BONAP (Biota of North America Project) floristic synthesis, Dioscorea floridana
  5. ↑ Bartlett, Harley Harris. 1910. U. S. department of agriculture. Bureau of plant industry. Bulletin. 189: 18.
  6. ↑ Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
  7. ↑ Knuth, Reinhard Gustav Paul. 1924. Das Pflanzenreich IV, 43: 173.
  8. ↑ Ahles, Harry E. 1964. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 80(2): 172.
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